May

Saturday 23rd May 2015

    • 10:30
    • 11:00
    • 12:30
    Kollot

    10:30-12:30

    Join us for our informal participatory minyan.  The service, mostly in Hebrew, is chanted and sung and brings together diverse voices.  Includes a space for children.  All are welcome.

    • 16:00
    • 17:00
    • 18:00
    • 19:00
    • 20:00
    • 21:00
    • 22:00
    • 23:59
    Erev Shavuot

    From 16:00       Mount Sinai Live!
    This is your chance to receive the 10 Commandments for real! A life size re-enactment of the giving of Torah at Mount Sinai.
    For children in Rec – Year 3 and Years 4 – 7 and their families.

    16:30                   Kuddle-up Shavuot
    A special service for under 5s.

    17:30                   Seuda Shlishit
    We join together for a picnic tea – please bring a treat or two.

    18:30                   Shavuot Service
    With the Alyth and FRS Clergy.

    19:30                   Dinner

    From 20:15       Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
    An evening of study and song looking at aspects of the Bible – how we understand it, and how it helps us to understand the world.

    20:15-21:00     Session 1:Understanding the origins of the Bible to understand the people of the Book
    With Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou

    21:10-21:55     Session 2: Choice of Five sessions

    Eicha: Understanding Disaster
    With Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris

    SHIR HASHIRIM: Understanding Love
    With Cantor Cheryl Wunch

    PSALMS: POETRY AS REVELATION
    With Rabbi Howard Cooper

    EXODUS: THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACE
    With Robert Feather

    Understanding the origins of the Bible continued
    A discussion with Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Rabbi Miriam Berger and Rabbi Josh Levy

    22:10-23:40       Session 3: The Great Text ‘on-BEAT’
    Take your place in the Old Synagogue as our clergy and guests have 15 minutes each to share a verse or text which helps them to understand the Bible, their Judaism or the world.

    23:40-00.05       Text and Tefillah over Midnight
    Rabbi Mark Goldsmith and Cantor Zoe Jacobs accompany you over midnight with text and song from the Tanakh

    From 00:30        Tikkun Leyl Shavuot – through the night
    Come to Finchley Reform Synagogue (Fallow Court Ave, N12) as we continue our Tikkun Leyl Shavuot through the night with study, song and poetry (bring your favourite to share). We’ll finish after shacharit which begins at 04:30.

    Click here for the event flyer.

    Contact Rabbi Josh and check your emails for more information.

    • 09:15
    • 10:15
    Shabbat Shiur: Torah for Today

    09:15-10:15

    Join Cantor Cheryl on the fourth Saturday of every month for an in-depth look at the week’s Torah portion. We will read the parsha together, review various commentaries, and have an open discussion about how the portion can relate to our modern lives.